Digital Transformation

This evolution of healthcare involves using technology to improve diagnosis, treatments, monitor patients, enhance hospital operations and culture, and bolster consumer-focused care. This includes virtual reality tools, wearable devices, workflow software, health apps and other digital health tools.

AdvaMed itemizes AI imperatives for ‘the entire healthcare ecosystem’
If you work with healthcare AI, you owe it to patients, families and communities to keep certain principles top of mind in everything you do.
6 things high-achieving orgs do to wring real value from AI
What makes an organization an AI leader? Demonstrating success in one of two pursuits.
A modest proposal to rally AI regulators around a simple game plan
As debate simmers over how best to regulate AI, experts continue to offer guidance on where to start, how to proceed and what to emphasize. A new resource models its recommendations on what its authors call the “SETO Loop.”
4 points crucial to the nimble regulation of GenAI
With generative AI coming into its own, AI regulators must avoid relying too much on principles of risk management—and not enough on those of uncertainty management.
5 tips to learn AI from scratch and for free
There’s no shortage of resources for healthcare workers who wish they knew AI well enough to talk shop with the technology pros who develop the models. The problem is weeding through the offerings to get to what will really work for you.

ESA: Hypnosis + local anesthesia prove beneficial in surgeries

Hypnosis used in combination with local anesthesia (LA) may improve healing time, reduce drug use and lengths of stay for patients undergoing certain types of surgery, according to two studies presented June 12 at the European Anesthesiology Conference in Amsterdam, which assessed hypnosis and LA compared with using general anesthesia for patients undergoing thyroidectomies and breast cancer surgeries.

June 9, 2011

Ethicon debuts trocar for minimally invasive procedures

Ethicon Endo-Surgery has launched a 5mm Endopath Xcel trocar with Optiview Technology. The product is designed to mitigate smudging of the endoscope or laparoscope during surgical procedures.

June 9, 2011

Stem cells may pose solution for those with healing deficiencies

Transplantation of adult stem cells enriched with a bone-regenerating hormone may help mend fractures that are not healing properly, according to findings presented June 5 at the Endocrine Societys 93rd annual meeting in Boston.

June 9, 2011

Siemens and SIS partner for perioperative workflow

Siemens Healthcare has partnered with Surgical Information Systems (SIS) to expand the reach of the Siemens health information system portfolio (including Soarian, INVISION and MedSeries4) into the perioperative environment, including the SIS Anesthesia platform.

June 8, 2011

A familiar refrainstandards needed

Last weeks Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) conference in Washington, D.C., featured conversations about the nuts and bolts of advanced visualization. Integration of systems to share sophisticated images and data remains on the horizon for many facilities, but the technology is getting closer.

June 8, 2011

Biomedical engineering: All-encompassing degree for a lucrative career

Biomedical engineering, or the application of engineering principals to medicine, is continuing to gain traction in both the hospital setting and the classroom, with top universities now offering degrees in the field and experts predicting that the job market will continue to grow at a fast pace.

June 8, 2011

AdvaMed recommends federal office of medical innovation

The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) has called for an office of medical innovation in the White House, which would be tasked with overseeing proposed and current government policies to assure that they support medical innovation, as part of a series of policy recommendations released June 6.

June 6, 2011

Centra hospitals go live with MEGAHIT project

Provider-owned organization MedVirginia and medical services provider Centra have partnered to enable Centras three hospitals to go live with the Social Security Administration (SSA) MEGAHIT project.

June 2, 2011

Around the web

Cardiovascular Business

Payment cuts and beyond: Key takeaways for cardiologists from the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

The American College of Cardiology has shared its perspective on new CMS payment policies, highlighting revenue concerns while providing key details for cardiologists and other cardiology professionals.

AI in Healthcare

A modest proposal to rally AI regulators around a simple game plan

As debate simmers over how best to regulate AI, experts continue to offer guidance on where to start, how to proceed and what to emphasize. A new resource models its recommendations on what its authors call the “SETO Loop.”

Cardiovascular Business

FDA commissioner urges clinicians to join fight against medical misinformation

FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, MD, said the clinical community needs to combat health misinformation at a grassroots level. He warned that patients are immersed in a "sea of misinformation without a compass."